Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they had, and not to what they would like to have." Ike conceded that "their reduction has disturbed some of our NATO partners." But he added that "this was all thoroughly discussed with...
...night in jail for speeding, another time was fined $10 for disturbing the peace after he tried to remove a toy car from a repair shop (he said that it belonged to his son). In a fight with an Aurora justice of the peace. Egan got punched in the nose, lost his glasses, took after his opponent with a pair of scissors. He won such a reputation for his colorful use of abusive and obscene language that the city's Ministerial Association declared "a moral emergency...
...nose-bobbing for appearances' sake: "If as the patient comes in the door you can't take your eyes off the huge and distorted nose, then reduction is usually justified." But some people with normal noses have a "nasal complex"; no surgery can help them. "Such patients are usually sent by a psychiatrist. The best thing to do is to send them back; the psychiatrist has taken the easy way out by suggesting surgery to cure a nasal complex...
Arbiter of Dalliance. If Publius Ovidius Naso (i.e., "Big Nose") had any qualms about the decadence of Augustan Rome, it can only be inferred, as in Restoration comedy, from the intensity of his frivolity. "Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication," says Translator Humphries. In a city of such sophisticates, Ovid, whose unlikely origin was the hard, bitter soil of Abruzzi (where he was born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial...
...Rochester, Harold Skellen woke up after Saturday-night celebrations feeling so terrible that he went to a hospital, was treated there for a fractured left arm, a broken nose, two black eyes, and head and face cuts requiring 79 stitches...